VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 485 556
Rank change year-on-year -14 +71 +143
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 76 55 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.17% 0.099%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.60% 0.56% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 28 23
10th Percentile £415 £466 £319
25th Percentile £473 £505 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £594
90th Percentile £650 £716 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £480
% change year-on-year -2.22% +17.19% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.38 - -
90th Percentile £96.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,564 9,833 12,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 29.94% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,222 5,992 8,183
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -0.05% -7.36% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 482 747
10th Percentile £16.27 £18.50 £16.27
25th Percentile £19.10 £23.70 £26.24
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £67.53
90th Percentile £76.58 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -39.40% -20.02% +20.42%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -45 60 £575 +2.68% 20
UK excluding London -59 30 £550 -2.22% 16
Work from Home +13 29 £531 -11.50% 10
London -9 25 £575 +2.22% 6
South East -29 13 £575 -2.54% 3
North of England -31 7 £465 -7.08% 8
North West - 7 £465 - 5
South West -19 6 £630 +5.00% 2
Midlands - 2 £513 - 3
East of England -20 1 £563 +151.68%
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
Scotland - 1 £225 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.74%) Azure
2 5 (6.58%) AWS
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (3.95%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.63%) IaaS
5 1 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.32%) PaaS
5 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.47%) Firewall
2 10 (13.16%) VSAN
3 8 (10.53%) DHCP
3 8 (10.53%) DNS
4 7 (9.21%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (7.89%) VPN
6 4 (5.26%) Network Security
6 4 (5.26%) PCoIP
7 3 (3.95%) SAN
7 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.95%) WAN
8 2 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.63%) IPFIX
8 2 (2.63%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.63%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.32%) DMVPN
9 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (1.32%) NAS
9 1 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) JIRA
2 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.95%) Git
2 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.21%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.63%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Electronics
5 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.63%) Marketing
5 2 (2.63%) Military
6 1 (1.32%) Advertising
6 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.32%) French Language
Job Titles
1 26 (34.21%) Consultant
2 23 (30.26%) VMware Consultant
3 16 (21.05%) VMware Engineer
4 11 (14.47%) Architect
5 9 (11.84%) VMware Specialist
6 8 (10.53%) Principal Consultant
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Consultant
7 6 (7.89%) PowerShell Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior
7 6 (7.89%) VMware Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V Consultant
9 4 (5.26%) PowerShell Consultant
9 4 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Architect
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Data Migration Consultant
11 2 (2.63%) Infrastructure Architect
11 2 (2.63%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) REST
2 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Replication
2 8 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.89%) PKI
4 4 (5.26%) Clustering
4 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.63%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.63%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (1.32%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) Windows
2 13 (17.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.89%) Linux
4 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (14.47%) Migration
3 7 (9.21%) Agile
3 7 (9.21%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (7.89%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (7.89%) ITIL
4 6 (7.89%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (7.89%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (6.58%) Cloud Security
5 5 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (6.58%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (6.58%) High Availability
5 5 (6.58%) Runbook
5 5 (6.58%) SIEM
6 4 (5.26%) Containerisation
6 4 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (63.16%) PowerShell
2 44 (57.89%) Python
3 31 (40.79%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.89%) SQL
5 3 (3.95%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (67.11%) Security Cleared
2 41 (53.95%) SC Cleared
3 18 (23.68%) VCAP
4 13 (17.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (14.47%) MCSE
6 9 (11.84%) MCSA
7 6 (7.89%) CCNP
7 6 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.95%) Degree
9 3 (3.95%) OCA
9 3 (3.95%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (3.95%) VCDX
10 2 (2.63%) CCNA
10 2 (2.63%) CISSP
10 2 (2.63%) GSEC
10 2 (2.63%) VCP6
System Software
1 40 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (36.84%) vSphere
3 15 (19.74%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (18.42%) VMware NSX
5 10 (13.16%) Active Directory
6 8 (10.53%) Hyper-V
7 7 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (5.26%) Docker
9 2 (2.63%) NFS
9 2 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.32%) Firmware
10 1 (1.32%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 34 (44.74%) vRealize
2 15 (19.74%) Ansible
3 12 (15.79%) vCenter Server
4 9 (11.84%) Terraform
5 5 (6.58%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.26%) PowerCLI
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.63%) vMotion
9 1 (1.32%) SCOM
9 1 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (27.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.21%) Cisco
4 6 (7.89%) Veeam
5 4 (5.26%) Dell
6 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.95%) NetApp
6 3 (3.95%) Oracle
6 3 (3.95%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.63%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.63%) Citrix
7 2 (2.63%) F5
7 2 (2.63%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.63%) Juniper
7 2 (2.63%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (2.63%) ProCurve
7 2 (2.63%) SAP
7 2 (2.63%) Splunk
8 1 (1.32%) Avaya
8 1 (1.32%) Ericsson